This set of twelve paintings depicts, with a spicing of imagination, activities which typify each month of the lunar calendar. It bears no signatures but is plainly a work of the Ch'ing dynasty academy. Judging from the style it is a collaborative effort by painter T'ang Tai, Ting Kuan-p'eng and other painters of the Ch'ien-lung court (1736-1796).

The lotus pond is placid on a hot summer day. In the deep shade of willow trees young ladies pursue seasonal pleasures. They find relief from the heat inside the storied pavilions, gather lotus flowers, dangle a fishing line from a balcony or go boating on the lake. There seems to be a slight breeze wafting over the water.